@Wil: Guns might have the ability to hold ammo, but they can't hold feed queues of different types or calibers which requires a rework anyways.

There is little need for that then. From my point of view, creating the single round item in the chamber slot, while deleting the apropriate entry in the attached magazine whenever you fire a bullet, isn't such a big deal for the code. There are FAR crazier procedures running endlessly in JA2 code (like vision) and have no impact on performance on our modern machines.

I thought the mood was against storing every single bullet (even if it is just an ammotype entry in a very long list). Couldn't we get away with a formula? Ie. shorter list of the ammotypes involved that is repeated, and a placeholder as to where in the order is the next round to be loaded.